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ClearBridge launches first local global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
... ultra-low interest rates, combined with the increased concentration risk in global equity indices, is driving financial advisers and investors to rethink their growth-equity allocations," Bushby said. "Increasingly investors are seeking consistency that ...

What retiree portfolios need to avoid future cost-of-living crises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
... options was also found to be critical, with almost 80% of respondents saying it would boost their happiness," he said. "Advisers have an important role to play in enabling safe spending, empowering retirement confidence, and protecting income to last ...

Goldman Sachs ditches robo-adviser Marcus Invest

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
... investing journeys." Betterment and Wealthfront, which has over US$60 billion in AUM, are the biggest standalone digital advisers in the US that are not backed by established institutions. In January 2022, UBS announced it was interested in acquiring ...

FSC expands financial advice membership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... pivotal time for the financial advice profession, I look forward to contributing the experience and insights of financial advisers and licensees to the FSC's policy development, to help deliver a more efficient regulatory framework for financial advisers ...

JANA appoints new director of client development

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
JANA Investment Advisers has announced the appointment of Habib Chebli as director, client development. Chebli will be based in Melbourne and will be responsible for relationships with wholesale and institutional clients. He will be focused on enhancing ...

Fortnum, PFS launch parent company

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... equity both businesses have built over many years." Entireti now employs over 55 staff and services about 400 financial advisers nationally. Its advice businesses collectively oversee more than $30 billion in FUA on behalf of over 60,000 clients. "The ...

Macquarie Bank to pay $10m for unauthorised fee transactions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... effective controls to prevent and detect unauthorised fee transactions conducted by third parties, such as financial advisers, on customer cash management accounts. ASIC chair Joe Longo said fraud controls were increasingly important and the case against ...

Court approves $16m DASS settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... Parent company of the now-defunct DASS, E&P Financial Group, did not admit any liability, which alleged that financial advisers, when they were operating under DASS, gave bad advice that did not consider clients' particular needs or entire financial ...

Sequoia chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... which Sequoia acquired in 2022. These companies provide media, research, digital distribution and technology services to advisers and investors. McGowen is counterclaiming damages of more than $1.1 million, the bulk of which Sequoia said "comprises the ...

Adviser numbers plateau

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
The number of financial advisers in Australia appears to be stabilising at 15,602, as Count and AMP Financial Planning continue to hold the lion's share. Rainmaker's analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register (FAR) shows that the population ...